The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 8J. Nichols, 1813 |
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... royal palace of Torino seems to have issued from the hands of Andrea , if we except the colour , which , though graceful and delicate , has more of the weakness that marked the tints of Sabbatini and the predecessors of the Caracci ...
... royal palace of Torino seems to have issued from the hands of Andrea , if we except the colour , which , though graceful and delicate , has more of the weakness that marked the tints of Sabbatini and the predecessors of the Caracci ...
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... royal . Caiet was of a kind and officious disposition , and was so unfortunate as to have for his enemies all whom he had obliged . His slovenly dress , his manner of life , and his absurd attempts to discover the philosopher's stone ...
... royal . Caiet was of a kind and officious disposition , and was so unfortunate as to have for his enemies all whom he had obliged . His slovenly dress , his manner of life , and his absurd attempts to discover the philosopher's stone ...
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... royal library at Paris . It was written in Greek , being a translation from the Persic by Simeon Seth , styled magister and protoves- tiary or wardrobe - keeper of the palace of Antiochus at Constantinople , about the year 1070 , under ...
... royal library at Paris . It was written in Greek , being a translation from the Persic by Simeon Seth , styled magister and protoves- tiary or wardrobe - keeper of the palace of Antiochus at Constantinople , about the year 1070 , under ...
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... royal college , had begun an attack on this commentary , because Calmet had not , as he thought , paid sufficient respect to the rabbins , but the king ( Louis XIV . ) and the cardinal de Noailles obliged him to desist . The celebrated ...
... royal college , had begun an attack on this commentary , because Calmet had not , as he thought , paid sufficient respect to the rabbins , but the king ( Louis XIV . ) and the cardinal de Noailles obliged him to desist . The celebrated ...
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... royal library , a correct transcript of the Vedam , a work which the natives of Hindostan attribute to their legislator Brama , who received it , according to their tradition , from God himself . This copy came into Calmet's possession ...
... royal library , a correct transcript of the Vedam , a work which the natives of Hindostan attribute to their legislator Brama , who received it , according to their tradition , from God himself . This copy came into Calmet's possession ...
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Page 240 - ... of the language in which that fancy was : spread, were at least equal, if not superior to any of that time : but his glory was, that after fifty years of his life, spent with less severity or exactness than it ought to have been, he died with the greatest remorse for that license, and with the greatest manifestation of Christianity, that his best friends could desire.
Page 337 - Parliament he was a Burgess in the House of Commons, and from the debates, which were there managed with all imaginable gravity and sobriety, he contracted such a reverence to Parliaments that he thought it really impossible they could ever produce mischief or inconvenience to the kingdom, or that the kingdom could be tolerably happy in the intermission of them...
Page 344 - ... upon any occasion of action, he always engaged his person in those troops, which he thought, by the forwardness of the commanders, to be most like to be farthest engaged...
Page 341 - ... and affable to all men that his face and countenance was always present and vacant to his company, and held any cloudiness and less pleasantness of the visage a kind of rudeness or incivility, became on a sudden less communicable, and thence very sad, pale, and exceedingly affected with the spleen. In his clothes and habit, which he had minded before always with more neatness and industry and expense than is usual to so great a soul, he was not now only incurious, but too negligent...
Page 341 - When there was any overture or hope of peace, he would be more erect and vigorous, and exceedingly solicitous to press anything which he thought might promote it ; and sitting among his friends, often after a deep silence, and frequent sighs...
Page 320 - One day old Lady Granville reproached her son with keeping the country clergyman, who was with him the night before, till he was intoxicated. Lord Carteret denied the charge; upon which the lady replied, that the clergyman could not have sung in so ridiculous a manner, unless he had been in liquor. The truth of the case was, that the singing thus mistaken by her Ladyship, was Dr. Bentley's endeavour to instruct and entertain his noble friend, by reciting Terence according to the true cantilena of...
Page 338 - ... thought no mischief so intolerable as the presumption of ministers of state to break positive rules for reasons of state, or Judges to transgress known laws upon the title of conveniency or necessity, which made him so severe against the Earl of Strafford, and the Lord Finch, contrary to his natural gentleness and temper...
Page 88 - ... party, managed his business with that great respect for all sides, that all who knew him applauded him, and none that had any thing to do with him complained of him. He was a man of great sense, but not obstinate in his sentiments, taking as great pleasure in hearing others' opinions as in delivering his own.
Page 341 - O Pallas! thou hast fail'd thy plighted word, To fight with caution, not to tempt the sword : I warn'd thee, but in vain; for well I knew What perils youthful ardour would pursue ; That boiling blood would carry thee too far, Young as thou wert in dangers, raw to war! O curst essay of arms, disastrous doom, Prelude of bloody fields and fights to come...
Page 341 - From the entrance into this unnatural war, his natural cheerfulness and vivacity grew clouded, and a kind of sadness and dejection of spirit stole upon him, which he had never been used to; yet being one of those who believed that...